Grammar for high school admissions tests: Difference between revisions

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* a part of a sentence that contains a finite verb but cannot be a sentence by itself
* a part of a sentence that contains a finite verb but cannot be a sentence by itself
* ex. ''The dog plays happily, '''since I gave him a bone'''''
* ex. ''The dog plays happily, '''since I gave him a bone'''''
* <u>test</u>:
* <u>to test</u>:
** if the clause by itself leaves a question or remains an inconmplete thought, it is a dependent clause
** if the clause by itself leaves a question or remains an inconmplete thought, it is a dependent clause
*** ''Since it is raining.''
*** ''Since it is raining.''
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|''I''
|''I''
|see
|''see''
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|''We''
|''We''
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|''He/ She / It''
|''He/ She / It''
|sees
|''sees''
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|''They''
|''They''
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{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+Present perfect: "have" and "had"
|+Present perfect: "have" and "has"
!pronoun
!pronoun
!auxiliary verb  
!auxiliary verb  
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!Plural
!Plural
|-
|-
|I had played
|''I had played''
|We had played
|''We had played''
|-
|-
|You had played
|''You had played''
|You (plural) had played
|''You (plural) had played''
|-
|-
|He/ She / It had played
|''He/ She / It had played''
|They had played
|''They had played''
|}
|}